BRONZE AGE CANOES.
Two canoes, each hewn out of an oak tree by Bronze Age men three thousand years ago, have been found intact in the bed of the Kiver Trent in England. They are twenty feet long and two feet wide and were found during dredging at Clifton Grove, two miles up the river from Nottingham. Mr. C. W. Phillips, of Cambridge Treliistoric Society, has examined them for the British Museum, and he said to a reporter: "They are in an excellent state after being found under three feet of gravel next to Bronze Age dwellings, which were destroyed, unfortunately, by dodging work several years ago. They are being preserved in water, and the process of drying them out will take months."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 220, 17 September 1938, Page 10
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123BRONZE AGE CANOES. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 220, 17 September 1938, Page 10
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